Digital Learning in Higher Education

Edited by Matt Smith, Interim Head of Primary Education,University of Wolverhampton and John Traxler, Professor of Digital Learning, Education Observatory, University of Wolverhampton, UK and UNESCO Chair

Contents:

Foreword xiii
Diana Laurillard
1 Introduction: education’s liminal space 1
Matt Smith and John Traxler
2 Pandemics, policies and positionality: how COVID 19
makes the case for postdigital policy making in higher education 11
Sarah Hayes
3 FELTAG in rearview: FE from the past to the future
through plague times 24
Howard Scott, Alison Iredale and Bob Harrison
4 Students’ agency in the emergency remote teaching landscape 37
Caroline Kuhn
5 Blended learning: impacts on the student experience 46
Elliott A. Lancaster
6 Covid-19 and UK higher education: library perspectives 57
Lis Parcell
7 Further non-teaching perspectives on aspects of the higher
education sector impacted by COVID-19 69
Maren Deepwell, Rachel Crookes and Matt Smith
8 Collaborative survival: the Bloomsbury Learning
Exchange’s response to the pandemic 77
Sarah Sherman, Shoshi Ish-Horowicz, Nancy Weitz and Julian Bream
9 To record or not to record? That was the question 86
Rachel Maxwell and Rob Howe
10 Initial teacher education during COVID-19: adopting,
adapting and inventing 104
Matt Smith, Rachel Morgan-Guthrie and Christy Caddick
11 The use of technology in health professionals’ learning in
a time of COVID-19 119
Trudie Roberts, Suzanne Bickerdike, Nancy Davies,
Gareth Frith, Jananisree Ganapathy, Richard Gatrell,
Charlotte Pettersen and Joshua Rowe
12 “Having your cake and eating it”: Arden University’s
responses to the COVID-19 lockdowns 131
Helen Scott and Carmen Miles
13 Digital learning after the crises: the new normal? 144
John Traxler and Matt Smith

Index